{"product_id":"singing-in-a-foreign-land-9780812250343","title":"Singing in a Foreign Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSinging in a Foreign Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Karen A. Weisman examines the uneasy literary inheritance of British cultural and poetic norms by early nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Focusing on a range of subgenres, from elegies to pastorals to psalm translations, Weisman shows how the writers she studies engaged with the symbolic resources of English poetry—such as the land of England itself—from which they had been historically alienated.\u003cbr\u003eWeisman looks at the self-conscious explorations of lyric form by Emma Lyon; the elegies for members of the British royal family penned by Hyman Hurwitz; the ironic reflections on hybrid identities written by sisters Celia and Marion Moss; and the poems of Grace Aguilar that explicitly join lyric effusion to Jewish historical concerns. These poets were well-versed in both Jewish texts and mainstream literary history, and Weisman argues that they model an extreme example of Romantic self-reflexivity: they implicitly lament their o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSinging in Foreign Land\u003c\/i\u003e has many strengths and will appeal to many kinds of readers, including those with interests in Coleridge and other Romantic poets’ intertextual connections with Jewish writers; those seeking a more diverse view of British Romanticism; those seeking deep and intricate analyses of the major Anglo-Jewish writers of the period; and those with particular interests in Jewish-Christian literary relations...[An] intricate, complex, and wonderfully researched volume.\" * The Coleridge Bulletin *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ground-breaking and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eSinging in a Foreign Land\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary contribution to our knowledge of religious diversity during the Romantic era. Karen A. Weisman is better equipped than any critic today to give us a fine-tuned picture of Romantic Jewish cultural production, one that refuses to see it as either merely oppositional or conformist.\" * Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at Chicago *\u003cbr\u003e\"I know of no other book that covers this ground of Anglo-Jewish Romantic poetry. With her meticulous scholarship and skillful readings, Karen A. Weisman shows how Anglo-Jewish Romantic poets engaged with the inherited traditions of pastoral, elegy, and lyric in a way that has earned them a place in that very tradition.\" * Judith W. Page, University of Florida *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Hath Not a Jew\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Emma Lyon's Spacious Firmament\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Mourning, Translation, Pastoral: Hyman Hurwitz\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Early Efforts of Celia and Marion Moss\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Grace Aguilar and the Demands of Lyric\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Amy Levy's Impossible Modernity\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405737664855,"sku":"9780812250343","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250343.jpg?v=1730493436","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singing-in-a-foreign-land-9780812250343","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}